BOY Review 12-19

Multiple Choice

Which statement explains how the First Amendment has affected these groups?

• These groups are allowed to share and promote their beliefs.

• These groups are allowed to join together to form a national religion.

• These groups are prevented from having worship services in public places.

• These groups are prevented from establishing religious schools.

Multiple Choice

What was one way slow communication with the British government affected the American colonies?

• The colonies united for trade and defense.

• It allowed self-government to develop in the colonies.

• Smuggling of goods in the colonies decreased.

• The colonies petitioned the government to establish a navy.

Multiple Choice

What was an IMMEDIATE effect of this amendment?

• Many plantation owners attempted to recapture former slaves.

• Many plantation owners were forced to give land to former slaves.

• Many ex-slaves became sharecroppers to earn a living.

• Many former slaves were awarded money by former Confederate leaders.

Multiple Choice

Which description is an example of an unalienable right from the Declaration of Independence?

• Equality — People’s education should be equal in every state.

• Wealth — People’s salaries should be dependent on their skills.

• Happiness — People can do lawful things that they enjoy

• Patriotism — People can choose to join any of the armed forces.

Multiple Choice

Which group would have made these arguments in 1787?

• Free Soldiers

• Anti-Federalists

• Loyalists

• Federalists

Multiple Choice

What was the INITIAL reason many European explorers sailed to the Americas?

• To find new trade routes to Asia

• To form military alliances

• To spread Christianity to Africa

• To find new sources of cheap labor

Multiple Choice

Which era is represented by this photograph?

• The early republic

• The Age of Jackson

• Westward expansion

• Civil War

Multiple Choice

Why did many farmers, artisans, and former Anti-Federalists support the Democratic-Republican Party who liked states' rights and helping the common man?

• The Democratic-Republicans favored the expansion of a strong national government.

• The Democratic-Republicans supported strict restrictions on immigration

• The Democratic-Republicans supported the use of tariffs.

• The Democratic-Republicans favored states’ rights and the rights of the common man.

Multiple Choice

Which statement explains how the work of Dorothea Dix benefited U.S. society?

• Mental-health facilities were opened to treat patients.

• Doctors were required to get federal licenses to practice medicine.

• States passed laws giving harsher sentences to criminals

• The government distributed land to poor people.

Multiple Choice

Which statement explains one of the motivations behind Manifest Destiny?

• “These are the times that try men’s souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country. . . .”

• “I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free. . . .”

• “And that claim is by the right . . . to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us. . . .”

• “That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.”

Multiple Choice

Which of the following prompted General Washington to write this letter?

• A shortage of Continental soldiers to maintain the siege of Yorktown

• The high number of casualties suffered during the Battle of Bunker Hill

• Low morale after the British army captured New York City

• Concern for the Continental troops during the winter at Valley Forge

Multiple Choice

How did sharecropping affect RENTING farmers in the South during Reconstruction?

• By introducing new technology for growing food

• By expanding the region’s dependence on corn production

• By making landowners buy supplies from the government

• By keeping renters in debt to landlords

Multiple Choice

Why did Alexander Hamilton think a national bank would strengthen the STABILITY of the central government?

• The bank would help provide stability for the U.S. economy.

• The bank would create a monopoly that would eliminate state banks.

• The bank would encourage foreign competition for manufactured goods.

• The bank would have the power to regulate interstate commerce.

Multiple Choice

Boston, Massachusetts, and San Francisco, California, are geographically similar in that they BOTH —

• have a Mediterranean climate

• are located near active volcanoes

• have a hot desert climate

• are located on a coast

Multiple Choice

What is the significance of the Pilgrims’ arrival in America?

• It led to an early attempt at self-government in the English colonies.

• It led to an alliance between the British and the French.

• It introduced the slave trade to the Atlantic colonies.

• It led to an alliance between the British and the Musty people.